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Rebecca Thornhill fully made-up for Matilda The Musical (900×600)

Rebecca Thornhill fully made-up for Matilda The Musical (900x600)

Day in the life: Matilda’s Rebecca Thornhill

Published 23 March 2016

We love Rebecca Thornhill. We loved her in Top Hat, we loved her in From Here To Eternity and we loved her in Mary Poppins. We love her in Matilda The Musical too.

But we hate Mrs Wormwood.

Why? Because Mrs Wormwood is a repulsive, reprehensible character who does not realise just how special young Matilda is and does not love her as much as she deserves.

Now, we’ve been around shows long enough to know that the performers are not their characters. We learned that early on. They teach you that on the first day of ‘writing about theatre’ school. But we were delighted, nonetheless, to see in Thornhill’s photo diary the amount of transformation she undergoes to become her salsa-dance obsessed character:

Rebecca Thornhill enjoys her morning coffee 

Morning coffee to start the day from my favourite coffee place.

 

Cambridge Theatre stage door

Arriving at our stage door.

 

Rebecca Thornhill putting her make-up on

I do my own singing warm-up as well as the one later and put my make-up on so that I am ready to go to wigs before the half.

 

Rebecca Thornhill warming up

Voice warm-up, physical and another singing warm-up…

 

Rebecca Thornhill in wigs

… And into wigs.

 

Rebecca Thornhill's tights

Four pairs of tights later.

 

Rebecca Thornhill prepares her nails

Nails ready (or topped up)

 

Rebecca Thornhill ready to go

Beginners

 

Rebecca Thornhill ready to go

Off to do Loud!

 

Matilda The Musical is booking at Cambridge Theatre until 18 December. You can book tickets through us here.

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